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Which ma belongs in the phrase 我 “ma” 好的
This may be a SE dialect thing, but plenty of my friends say 我 "ma" 好的 to mean 我很好 or "ma" 好的 to mean good or I agree with you.
Can someone tell me which character (if there is one) is supposed to be ...
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What do Chinese do if they forget how to write a character?
I've heard that character amnesia is becoming more and more common.
What if a Chinese has to write something and he doesn't have a cellphone or computer with him, what does he do if he forgot the ...
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What methods are available for looking up a character?
Some dictionaries provide a radical lookup for finding a character. Are there other systems available besides radical lookup for finding the meaning of a word when one only has the character?
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What characters are on this ceramic jar?
What characters are depicted on this old jar? My (art-)sources have all different opinions: "fu2 shou4 an1 kang1" or "fu2 lu4 shou4 xi3" or 4 x shou4 or "fu2 shou4 kang1 ning2" and all without telling ...
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Where can I find a list of commonly mistaken characters?
I want to quickly identify potential mistakes created by OCR software. Where can I find a list of all Chinese characters that visually look very similar and might often be confused?
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What does this character mean?
I've tried a number of online and paper dictionaries (Chinese-Chinese character dictionaries) and I still can't find this character. Since I don't know how it's pronounced or what the right part is ...
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What does 嘞 mean
I actually suspect that this character may be a typo for ”了“, but I'll ask nevertheless. What is the second character in this snippet?:
I managed to write it into my pocket dictionary, it simply ...
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Characters which have several different shapes
For those who might not read the question fully: this not about simplified vs traditional characters. While the traditional and simplified version of a character can be considered the same, they at ...
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Do you write every character? [closed]
I have been studying Chinese for a few months now. I am using some software to test my knowledge of the characters. Sometimes I do not recognize every character of a word but I can still derive the ...
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Searching for characters by parts
Are there any online or computer dictionaries that allow searching for characters by any sub-part of the character? Occasionally it I see a character the parts of which I can already type. But I ...
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What is the function of 已 in 好像她已出去好几天了。
What is the purpose of 已 in the following sentence？
好像她已出去好几天了。
The English translation given is:
It looks as if she's gone away for a few days.
Or is this an incorrect-character, supposed ...
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Is the description for components of 条 correct?
During studying 条 character in one of the dictionaries I have found decomposition of this character to two components:
夂 zhǐ: to go
木 mù: tree; wood (Kangxi radical 75)
I see the 夂 component but ...
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Some characters look different handwritten and on the computer - how to learn the differences?
I've mainly been learning to read/write Chinese using computer based software as opposed to going to lessons etc.
However, I've realised that there is a small handfull of characters that look ...
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What is the Mandarin equivalent for the Shanghai term for dirty?
In the Shanghai dialect dirty is pronounced something like "o co" with the o pronounced like the "o" in cot and the "c" pronounced like the usual c in pinyin (kinda like an 'ts' sound).
Which ...
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Does anyone know what is the characters means (丁財貴寿)?
Does anyone know what is written on the image? I tried to find out what is it, and got 丁財貴寿 (丁财贵寿), but not quite sure enough. I tried to find the meaning of the words but seems can't find it or I ...
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Does anyone recognize the characters written here?
Does anyone recognize the characters written here? I've tried to figure it out but still can't understand what is written there, since I've just recognized the rightmost character, 天. It's a carving ...
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Character to use for the onomotapoeic sound “choong!”
"Choong!" is the sound of something taking off or being launched. I'm trying to find out if there is a character for this sound as "choong" is not used for any regular character.
Not to be confused ...
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What does the character in this Naruto poster mean?
I dont know how to type that character, otherwise I would try it out through other means.
What does the character mean? It appears in a poster concerning the Japanese manga Naruto.
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What does this calligraphy by 張照 say?
I can make out bits of this calligraphy, but not enough to look up the poem. The first line (and the poet, which I assume is the last two characters) should suffice for the purposes of using a search ...
